Douglas Adams would be 58 today, but sadly he left us too soon. I can remember as a teenager discovering Douglas Adams thanks to an omnibus collection of the Hitchiker’s Guide novels that I received as a birthday gift.
It was love at first page. I can distinctly recall sitting on our kitchen floor (I honestly have no idea why I was sitting on the floor.) forcing my mother (here, Mom, I’m writing something about you, and there’s no picture, but you won’t read this anyway since you are in Hawaii) who was busy cooking dinner to listen to me read passages aloud while tears of laughter streamed down my face.
It was a few years later when I accidentally discovered the Dirk Gently books in a bookstore. I hadn’t even known of their existence before. (Young people, information was not so easy to come by before the internet age.) I bought them at once, and was not disappointed.
Since I am busy being a back-in-my-day sort of geezer I’ll point out that there used to be no such thing as GPS or Mapquest and many people, Dirk Gently was one of them, used to get around by following someone who looked like they knew where they were going. I still pull the occasional Dirk Gently while driving.
Douglas Adams was not a super-prolific writer, but what he did write was awesome. I wish he could have hung around a bit longer. I, for one, really wish there were more books in the Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Series.
Do you have a book that you wish one of your favorite authors had the chance to write?
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Happy posthumous birthday to Mr. Adams! One of my favorite author died too young as well, Robert E. Howard. In those days though, they really believed in suffering for your art and it had a high price. It’s a shame, the things they could have written…
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This is such a good question! I still wish Margaret Mitchell had published more books. Gone With the Wind is one of my all-time favorites.
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Heather: I really didn’t know much about Robert E. Howard until I watched a movie made about his life (The Whole Wide World). His was a sad story.
Lisa and Laura: I am very embarrassed to admit that I have never read Gone with the Wind. It’s awful, I know. I must get around to rectifying this.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is amazing. I remember reading the 2nd book, but I can’t remember if I read book 3.
I wish J.D. Salinger and Harper Lee had written more books.
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Medeia: I second both Harper Lee and J. D. Salinger as authors who should have written more stuff.